Why most run Microsoft, not RedHat

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Mon Apr 30 12:30:24 UTC 2007


Zoltan Boszormenyi wrote:

>>>>      
>>>>> He was a bit tricky to
>>>>> use chattr +i on /bin/login and some other progs.
>>>>> BTW, although rpm complained that it cannot replace
>>>>> those, why isn't it prepared for such scenarios?
>>>>> RPM is made for Linux, it should certainly know
>>>>> about special filesystem flags and handle them.
>>>>>
>>>>>             
>>>> How should rpm handle it? Rpm has no way of knowing why the
>>>>         
>>> How?
>>>
>>> 1. be able to specify special flags in the specfile and apply them upon
>>> install
>>> 2. detect if the filesystem doesn't handle such specials and make note
>>> of it in the rpmdb
>>> 3. clear them before uninstalling or upgrading
>>> 4. detect if it was modified, report it with rpmv
>>>     (skip this check if the rpmdb indicates it, see 2)
>>>
>>>
>>>     
>> Why? What would the advantages be? Do they overcome the drawbacks of
>> rpm being able to change a file that you set the immutable flag on?
>>
>> Mikkel
>>   
> 
> Yes, see 3.

What would be the point of having a special attribute if programs
can just ignore it?

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